Device Service - Command-line Options

See the Common Command Line Options for the set of command line options common to all EdgeX services. The following command line options are specific to Device Service.

Running multiple instances

--instance or -i

Device services support one additional command-line argument, --instance or -i.

This allows for running multiple instances of a device service in an EdgeX deployment, by giving them different names. For example, running device-modbus -i 1 results in a service named device-modbus_1, ie the parameter given to the instance argument is added as a suffix to the device service name. The same effect may be obtained by setting the EDGEX_INSTANCE_NAME environment variable.